The phrase "a miserable excuse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is a poor justification or reason for an action or situation.
Example: "His explanation for being late was a miserable excuse that no one believed."
Alternatives: "a pathetic excuse" or "a poor excuse".
He is the author of the forthcoming "You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero (Thomas Dunne Books/St Martins Press).
The program at the Council on Foreign Relations was designed for highly engaged students, who seem to have absorbed a fundamental lesson in life: Ignorance is a terrible strategy for success and a miserable excuse for failure.
It has been a miserable excuse for ancient, stomach-churning antipathy so far, but maybe things will look up now that an insouciant English rabble-rouser has stepped out of the pages of Evelyn Waugh and P.G.
I've already gone on record as saying that Terminator Salvation is not nearly as bad a movie as these reviews would suggest, but more specifically, I think it's worth pointing out that neither is McG as poor a director, nor such a miserable excuse for a human being as people seem to think he is.
A miserable excuse for a city.
One of my dearest high school teachers recently responded to my post on the case via social media, calling Turner "sick in the head" and a "miserable excuse for a human being" for what he did.
She has been publicly unmasked as a perfectly miserable excuse for a human being.
Why we haven't already run this miserable excuse for a man out of the country is beyond me.
I almost torpedo the mood by bringing up that miserable excuse for a holiday, Valentine's Day.
The best thing about step 10 is that it's the end of this miserable, miserable excuse for a guide.
The following morning, announce that, "we are getting that miserable excuse for a Christmas tree out of this house today".
